John Bentley BROCKSOPP

BROCKSOPP, John Bentley

    Service Number: 407489
    Enlisted: 12 October 1940, Adelaide, South Australia
    Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
    Last Unit: No. 454 Squadron (RAAF)
    Born: London, England, 2 February 1912
    Home Town: Renmark, Renmark Paringa, South Australia
    Schooling: St Peter's College, Adelaide, South Australia
    Occupation: Fruitgrower
    Died: Aircraft Accident, Gambut 3 Aerodrome, Kambut, Libya, Middle East, 8 June 1943, aged 31 years
    Cemetery: Tobruk War Cemetery, Tobruk, Libya
    Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hackney St Peter's College WW2 Honour Roll, Renmark District Roll of Honour WW2
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    World War 2 Service

    12 Oct 1940: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 407489, Adelaide, South Australia
    12 Oct 1940: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 407489
    8 Jun 1943: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 407489, No. 454 Squadron (RAAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45
    Date unknown: Involvement

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    Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

    John Bentley BROCKSOPP was born in London, UK on 2nd February 1912

    His parents were Herbert Arthur BROCKSOPP and Leslie Jean AKHURST who married in 1910 in South Australia - they had returned to England where Herbert was born and later returned to Australia where more children were born

    John married Dorothy Fraser ROSENBERG (nee COOMBE) in 1941

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